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render it eligible, a considerable extent of ground is 

 sometimes included, and appropriated to the culture of 

 small fruits and kitchen vegetables. If possible, the 

 gardener's house should be situate here, as being conve- 

 nient for him, and as tending to scare depredators. 



Walls, — 'For the production of the finer fruits, such 

 as peaches, apricots, figs, hardy grapes, and most of the 

 delicate French and Flemish pears, the aid of walls is 

 indispensable in the English climate. Indeed, in the 

 northern and higher parts of that country, ^Yhere there 

 is no walled garden, the dessert can seldom consist of 

 more than small fruits, such as gooseberries, with some 

 apples and pears. So valuable in this respect are walls, 

 that it is perhaps a matter of surprise that they have 

 not been multiplied by the erection of slight and cheap 

 structures, such as are common in the peach-gardens in 

 France. The north inclosure wall having, towards the 

 interior of the garden, a south aspect, is of course ap- 

 propriated to the more tender Tvinds of fruit-trees ; here, 

 it is generally estimated, they enjoy an increased tem- 

 perature equal to T° of south latitude. The east and 

 west walls are set apart for fruits of a somewhat hardier 

 character ; while the inner face of the south inclosure 

 wall, having a north aspect, is well adapted for retard- 

 ing Morella cherries and currants. 



The north inclosure wall is generally placed nearly 

 perpendicular to the meridian, that is, so as to have the 

 sun directly in front at 12 o'clock. Minute directions 

 have indeed been given to make it face towards^ 11 or 

 11 J A. M., on the ground that thus it would sooner meet 

 the rays of the morning sun ; but it does not appear that 

 this arrangement has been the subject of direct experi- 

 ment, and certainly the arguments by which the supe- 



